It now, doubtless, presents a totally different aspect.

The fur companies no longer assemble there; the navigation of the lake is carried on by steamboats and various shipping, and the race of traders, and trappers, and voyageurs, and Indian dandies, have vapored out their brief hour and disappeared.

Such changes does the lapse of a handful of years make in this ever-changing country.
At this place Mr.Hunt remained for some time, to complete his assortment of Indian goods, and to increase his number of voyageurs, as well as to engage some of a more efficient character than those enlisted at Montreal.
And now commenced another game of Jockeyship.

There were able and efficient men in abundance at Mackinaw, but for several days not one presented himself.

If offers were made to any, they were listened to with a shake of the head.